Art attack: Rozi Demant's 'Lovebirds'

(Credit: Rozi Demant)

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Take Dali's infinite horizons, render them in a blood-soaked color palette fit for a Hot Topic catalog, and then pepper the scene with the badonkadonk booties of the Renaissance.

What results from such a mishmash? The dark, pop-surrealist work of New Zealand-based painter Rozi Demant, who makes her U.S. debut at Tarryn Teresa Gallery this week. The long-limbed, saucer-eyed women appearing in work from her solo exhibit, “Lovebirds,” bend over beds, hold steady at the ends of leashes and languish in lusty tension. Leashes? Badonkadonks? It’s not too shocking that her work sells before it’s hung.

To see what all the commotion from Down Under is about, head to Tarryn Teresa for the opening reception Saturday, July 19. The show runs through August 30.